Archive for February 2012

And The Award Goes To …

I watched part of the Oscars Sunday night and just like everything else in Hollywood, this party was over the top. A four and a half hour extravaganza to recognize and reward the top artists. Really, for me it’s the last forty-five minutes that get interesting. Everything else leading up to that feels like fluff […]

Will Your People Be Staying Or Going?

When the economy turns and jobs start to open back up, why will your people stay? What’s going to entice them to stick around? If you’ve been forced to make cuts over the last few years have you checked in with your employees to see if their still engaged, or better yet somehow inspired?  The […]

Oh Goodness, It’s Performance Review Time Again!

Which side of the bell curve did you land on this year? How did that conversation go for you? Did you buy it? Most don’t, and for good reason; it’s broken. The system doesn’t work and everyone knows it is a joke, but we all keep marching in line. Even if you landed on the […]

From The Frontline In The War On Talent

We keep hearing about this global war for talent, and for good reason; it’s about to get real. The world continues to shrink, technology continues to alter traditional patterns of work and knowledge continues to reign supreme. Compound all of this with more and more boomers starting to leave the workplace and the war for […]

Kickstarter Funding Project

Follow my funding project at Stuck In The Middle on Kickstarter! For authors, hiring a publicist has become more the rule than the exception because publishers alone can’t publicize all of the books under their imprint. As a new author, the writing of the book is actually the easy part. The hard part comes in […]

So Where Are You So Far in 2012?

It’s so easy to get wrapped up in our day-to-day, that we rarely take the time to reflect on where we are, how we got here and where we’re headed. It’s two months into 2012, and outside of setting a broad sweeping New Year’s resolution, what kind of goals have you really targeted for the […]

People Who Need People

Organizations need people. They must hire and retain people to innovatively solve problems for new and old products so they can continue to increase profits and preserve their company’s growth. The challenge for us as emerging Generation X leaders is to do more with less. As leaders, we must inspire people that have different generational […]

You Can’t Pay The Bills Without Being Happy

I had someone tell me not very long ago “You can’t pay your bills without being happy.” I thought that was pretty interesting in the context of the conversation I was having with this colleague of mine. We talked about observing people in airports flying to and fro. I call them the Blue Blazer Society. […]